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Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

Getting to Green is an MPR News series that shares stories about Minnesota’s clean energy transition, including what needs to be done to get there.

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Catholic leaders: Reaction to pope's climate change message mixed

Catholic leaders: Reaction to pope's climate change message mixed

Minnesota is among the states leading efforts to the pope's climate change message. The pope is expected to talk about climate change and the environment when he visits the U.S. later this month.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Climate change affects lakes, walleye in complex ways

Climate change affects lakes, walleye in complex ways

A complicated web of relationships among the species in a lake makes simple explanations hard to come by.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Tiny animals may have a big impact on Minnesota fish

Tiny animals may have a big impact on Minnesota fish

Spiny waterfleas, an invasive species, may be using up the food that young fish like walleye need to survive.
by Dan Gunderson

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Minnesota pheasant numbers jump; long-term worries remain

Minnesota pheasant numbers jump; long-term worries remain

Good weather conditions have pushed Minnesota pheasant numbers 33 percent higher this year compared to 2014, the DNR says. Habit loss, however, remains a big concern for the birds' future.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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MSP airport solar installation poised to grow

MSP airport solar installation poised to grow

Combined, the installations at Terminals 1 and 2 will be nearly twice the size of the largest existing solar project in Minnesota.
by Tim Nelson

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MN health officials: Lab tech's 'misconduct' triggers water quality probe

Officials are investigating two years of state water quality testing, including data connected to water systems in Edina, St. Louis Park and Brooklyn Center. Officials say there's no immediate health risk.
by MPR News Staff

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How Waukesha, Wis., could change the way we use Great Lakes water

Waukesha, Wis., wants to pump drinking water from Lake Michigan. It's the first major test of a 2008 pact regulating Great Lakes water. MPR News' Tom Weber guides a discussion of the plan.

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Rice finds a welcome home in Wisconsin paddies

Rice finds a welcome home in Wisconsin paddies

A Marquette University scientist slogged through more than 200 rice varieties to find the most promising few; he then subjected those to real Wisconsin weather on rooftop paddies outside his lab.
by Susan Bence

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Two things that changed walleye fishing in Minnesota

Two things that changed walleye fishing in Minnesota

Take a drive north and you'll see $50,000 boats and whole communities built off the walleye fishing industry. It wasn't always that way.
by John Enger

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Why walleye is Minnesota's 'holy grail of fish'

Why walleye is Minnesota's 'holy grail of fish'

The DNR's move to close the walleye season on Lake Mille Lacs triggered a mini-cultural crisis this summer in Minnesota. What is it about that fish that keeps us hooked?
by Dan Kraker

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